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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:51:33 -0400
Message-Id: <199910211851.OAA05365@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: juliano AT cs DOT unc DOT edu
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <380F5E6D.6FF50587@cs.unc.edu> (message from Jeffrey Juliano on
	Thu, 21 Oct 1999 14:41:49 -0400)
Subject: Re: B20.1 gettimeofday returns incorrect tv_secs
References:  <380F5E6D DOT 6FF50587 AT cs DOT unc DOT edu>


>  * in cygwin B20.1, the zero point for the result of gettimeofday is
>    not 1970.  Instead it is (either when the computer was turned
>    on or when you logged in?)

gettimeofday returns the correct values now.  I just ran a test
program on NT and Linux, and the numbers were within "clock drift"
tolerance (i.e. my clocks aren't syncd, but the results were only a
few seconds off from each other).

> I hope this has been changed as well in recent snapshots.  can someone
> please verify?  If so, are they in the version on the CD released last
> week?

Yes.

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